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Apart_Shock OP t1_iru6zj7 wrote

>Researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University have built a device using new artificial intelligence techniques that can recognise “millions of colours”, opening the door to a new world of industrial machine vision applications.
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>A-Eye is capable of analysing and processing colour far more accurately than existing machines, according to a paper detailing the research published in Materials Today. Researchers say the new device represents “a massive step” in the field of machine vision and has broad applications for a range of technologies.

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FuturologyBot t1_irubt24 wrote

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>Researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University have built a device using new artificial intelligence techniques that can recognise “millions of colours”, opening the door to a new world of industrial machine vision applications.
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>A-Eye is capable of analysing and processing colour far more accurately than existing machines, according to a paper detailing the research published in Materials Today. Researchers say the new device represents “a massive step” in the field of machine vision and has broad applications for a range of technologies.


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Kalwasky t1_iruf460 wrote

Quantum socks mean my feet can have millions of toes.

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Lankuri t1_iruqrvu wrote

quantum languages mean people can add quantum to millions of words

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WimbleWimble t1_irv4mlw wrote

AI: Sir, I have identified 47 new shades of red by simply opening up your work colleagues Dr Smith, Dr Williams and your lab assistant.

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OneTrueKingOfOOO t1_irvk6k6 wrote

I can always tell when a headline is from r/Futurology. Pretty sure those paint matching devices at the hardware store can recognize millions of colors too

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TheKasimkage t1_irvlhfm wrote

The new Microsoft Windows Logo once they make quantum computers is going to be wild.

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professorjaytee t1_irvxmjn wrote

Whoopie. Nearly all humans can see "millions of colors" too. Since they're only talking about SHADES of colors, not individual, separate colors.

Yes, this is a nice step for computers. No, it's not a ground-breaking amazing thing that humans can't do.

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sceadwian t1_irwi8b3 wrote

Shades are independent colors. Even if they don't have a name. The entire concept of color is a human conceptual one not one that exists in physics. When you get right down to it there are no natural colors that are actually one color. Even the best single wavelength emitters output in a range around an average wavelength not one color.

A typical human can only see about a million colors we can't differentiate finer than that.

People trained with color reference swaths can do better

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SatanLifeProTips t1_irwl5k5 wrote

My cell phone camera can see millions of colours too. I’m not sure what is different about what these guys are doing.

If it’s legit, a different method of capturing light may have applications in self driving as the current crop of vision systems is easily fooled.

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IdRaptor t1_irx5jak wrote

What a non article.

Also, even conventional camera sensors can see millions of colors. For an 8 bit RAW file (typical RAW files are 14 or 16 bit) each color channel can be one of 256 values.

256^3 = 16,777,216 colors per pixel.

If you go up to a 14 bit RAW file you'll be up to about 4.4 trillion colors.

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Viper_63 t1_irx9zb9 wrote

The "important" part is at the very end:

>As light passes through these windows, the machine processes the colour as data, explains Ostadabbas. Machine learning models then look for patterns in order to better identify the corresponding colours analysed by the device.

>“Instead of breaking it down into its principal red, green and blue components, when a coloured light appears, say, on a detector, instead of just seeking those components, we are using the entire spectral information,” says Kar.

"Ordinary" cameras sensors (CCD/CMOS) use filters (e.g. Bayer, which also aims to account for the human eye's sensitivity to green light) to reconstruct an image made up of the three primary colours (RGB). The camera sensor does not actually detect "millions" of colours - it just detects varying levels of the colours passed through by the filter.

As I understand the article, this is a different approach that does not restrict the recorded spectrum in the same way.

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